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I had a chance to discuss the coming regulatory wave for cryptocurrencies with London-based fintech legal expert, Adam Vaziri. Vaziri is the co-founder of a number of related ventures, including Diacle - a firm that helps fintech companies fulfill regulatory requirements in the UK, Merkle Tree - a website that...

A blockchain solution for Greece started out as a educational white paper by Lee Gibson Grant, co-founder of Coinstructors. The question Lee Grant was trying to answer was could Greece launch its national currency backed by state owned assets? This secondary currency could benefit Greece by keeping assets under state...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (USAO-NDCA), assessed a $700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC). According to FinCEN, Ripple...

The Hong Kong Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, K C Chan, said today that Hong Kong Government did not consider bitcoins currency, and would not at this time regulate the cryptocurrency. The Hong Kong official was responding to questions from Legislator Leung Yiu-chung in Hong Kong's Legislative Council....

Leading bitcoin wallet company Coinbase announced yesterday it has launched a regulated bitcoin exchange, the first in the United States. The company indicated that the goal of establishing the Coinbase Exchange was to bring increased stability to the bitcoin ecosystem. Coinbase posted the following on its corporate blog: Coinbase Exchange provides...

Fight Ring Announcer: "Ladies & Gentlemen, our main event tonight is for all the marbles. The Bitcoin Title is on the line with winner take all. The contestants:" Challenger The challenger, wearing the white shorts, fighting well above his weight class, and only appearing because of widespread blockchain support and...